Syrian rebels killed 14 soldiers in an attack on an army post in Daraa province on Friday, a watchdog said, a day after the army suffered 92 losses, the highest daily total of the 19-month conflict.

Six rebels were also killed in Friday's attack on the army checkpoint at Khirba in the southern province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that fighting also raged in the northern provinces of Idlib and Aleppo.

The Britain-based watchdog said Thursday had marked one of the deadliest days of fighting since an anti-regime revolt erupted in March last year, with at least 240 people killed across the country, including the 92 soldiers, 67 rebel fighters and 81 civilians.

Turkey should show evidence for their complaintSyria has refuted as “absolutely untrue” Turkish allegations that a civilian plane headed for Damascus was carrying Russian-made munitions. Meanwhile, analysts doubt the Turks could have found anything compromising enough to back their claims.

­Following claims by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the Syrian commercial jet was carrying “munitions for the Syrian Defense Ministry,” a Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the plane was not carrying any ammunition, or any other illegal cargo, calling the allegations "absolutely untrue.”

Turkey now faces a serious public relations problem, Mark Almond, an Oxford historian and Visiting Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University in Turkey told RT, because whatever was found on the plane “was not something you could put in front of the world’s media cameras and say – ‘Look! Got ya!’”

Israel says Syrian mortar strike was attack on NATOIsrael's Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said on Thursday a deadly Syrian mortar strike on a Turkish town had to be considered an attack on a member of the NATO alliance.

"In Syria, I will work ... to identify and organize those members of the opposition who share our values and ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad's tanks, helicopters and fighter jets."

This commitment by Mitt Romney in his VMI address has thrilled the neocons as much as it has unsettled the realists in his camp.

On Friday, Qatar’s foreign minister denied that his country is supplying Syrian rebels with arms or funds to buy weapons. Khalid Bin Mohammad al-Attiyah also urged the UN to create a buffer or no-fly zone over Syria, the AP said. The minister, currently visiting Tokyo, said that Qatar is providing Syrian rebels with food and medicine. Qatar and Saudi Arabia earlier called for an international effort to arm and assist rebels in Syria.

Conversation:Huseyin Bagci, professor of the Middle East University from Ankara

Also in Turkey, the people do not think that NATO will have to come to Turkey because in 1991 when Turkey had the first Gulf War situation, NATO was also not providing the expected military and economic aid to Turkey.

So the Turks are a little bit now very careful if NATO is promising something. But the United States of America is indeed directly or indirectly involved in it but at the moment the American elections are coming and probably the new president of course will be sworn in, in January.

Syria has demanded that Ankara return the confiscated equipment and pay compensation for grounding the airplane.

The US threw its backing behind Turkey for the decision to land the Syria-bound plane.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, however, has called on both Syria and Turkey to exercise restraint. He will travel to Turkey on Saturday to meet with his Turkish counterpart and discuss the latest developments in the Syrian crisis, a German embassy statement said on Friday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says no military materials are being smuggled across his country’s borders into conflict-stricken Syria."We stress that no weapons go to Syria via Iraq," he told reporters in Prague on Thursday.

"We have placed the army on our border to prevent the delivery of weapons to Syria," Maliki stated.

The Iraqi prime minister also called on countries supplying arms to Syrian insurgents to "look for positive solutions" instead.

"All weapons supplied are used against the Syrian people, and this is bad for the entire region," Maliki said.

Hezbollah calls for ceasefire to extract its fighters from Syria, rebels report

Free Syrian Army accuses the Lebanese militant group of attempting to drag Syrian Shiites into perpetrating massacres

Syrian rebels reported on Friday that the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah requested a ceasefire for several hours, so that it can extract the bodies of its fighters from an area near Homs.

A rebel spokesman warned Hezbollah, which supports the Bashar Assad regime, against any further participation in the 19-month-long civil war in Syria. In an interview with Saudi-owned daily A-Sharq Al-Awsat, the spokesman said that the rebels would take the battle to Beirut, if Hezbollah didn’t heed the warning.

Also on Friday, the rebel Free Syrian Army accused Hezbollah, a Shiite organization, of attempting to drag Syrian Shiites into perpetrating the massacres that are taking place in the country.

Westerwelle said in a statement on Friday that he would meet with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday in Istanbul to hold talks on "the situation in Syria and on the Turkish-Syrian border."

"The Syria situation has escalated. That fills us with the greatest concern," he said, adding that "It is important that no one pours oil on the fire. We are counting on moderation and de-escalation."